Learner Tien has just had a promising debut at the Masters 1000 Canadian Open when surpassing his compatriot Colton Smith. Although only 19 years old and just played at the Masters 1000 in Canada for the first time in his career, Tien showed the confidence and bravery of a talent that is strongly reaching out in the world tennis village.
The competition between two young American players does not lack dramatic balls. Tien entered the game with a stable performance, solid hand serve and flexible movement. He controlled the game and took advantage of the opportunity to break the break to close the first set with a score of 6-4. Smith, although there are praiseworthy efforts, cannot penetrate the opponent's firm defense in most of the first set of set.
Set two, the game became more struggling. Tien soon has the advantage of breaking the break and leading 5-4, holding the serve to end the match. However, the rare moment of distraction made him lose important serve games, opening up the opportunity to equalize for Smith.
However, instead of wobbling psychologically, Tien still quickly regained his calm. The Vietnamese-original player regained the break in the next game, then coldly closed the match with an impressive Ace in the 12 game.
With this result, Tien has officially won tickets to the 2nd round of the male Canadian Open 2025. Here, he will face the No. 22 Denis Shapovalov seed. The Canadian player is in relatively good form and has just won the Los Cabos two weeks ago. In the past, Shapovalov beat Rafael Nadal to the semi -finals of this tournament when he was 18 years old in 2017.
Tien shared after the victory of Smith: “I think I played a rather neat match, especially at important times. I saved a lot of break point, except for game 5-4 in the second set. At that time, I was a bit subjective, but fortunately I could soon regain the pace and end the match at the right time.”
Earlier, at the Washington Open, Tien was shocked to defeat the No. 5 seed Andrey RubleV, raising the confrontation achievement with top 10 players in the year to 4-1. Young tennis players also appeared at ATP Next Gen Finals at the end of last year, and is having a memorable season with achievements in the fourth round of Australian Open, where he has defeated Daniil Medvedev in the second round.
